Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has welcomed the opening of the market in the Philippines to exports of beef, pork and lamb from Ireland. - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/irish-new...nes-market-30509851.html#sthash.BXv44ytZ.dpuf http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/irish-meat-is-bound-for-the-philippines-market-30509851.html
Slaughtered by a good Catholic slaughterman and butchered in accordance with good Catholic principles! Who needs "halal"! Seriously, from the shipping point of view, it may be best shipped frozen, not chiller, as there will be two transhipments - none of the major container lines offers a direct call in Ireland on their Far East Europe service and none of them offer a call at a Phillipines port on their Far East Europe servic either, so there will be a double transhipment.
More importantly, who will be able to afford to buy it - assuming the Irish can find an importer/distributor? The membership shopping outfit, S & R, which is the franchisee of the American Costco chain, already sells Australian beef, pork and lamb - or perhaps I should say, attempts to sell. That has travelled considerably less distance than would a dismembered and frozen Irish lamb, pig or steer but is still eye-wateringly expensive. About six weeks ago, I almost bought a leg of lamb until I saw the price - Php5,000, or £70 in proper money, per kilo! Australian pork is more than double the price of local produce and the country's beef is costlier - and poorer quality-wise - than USDA beef which is quite reasonably priced.
Looks like potentially more meat for Pinas. (I was going to copy an excerpt from the article but seems they are sensitive, they prefer the entire news item being published!) http://www.globalmeatnews.com/Indus...or-undergoes-trade-mission-to-the-Philippines
You Wow things do get expensive when they travel South. Yesterday i bought 3 decent sized Australian lamb chops for 276php in South Supermarket Alabang. The local rib eye steaks where around 300 per kilo and the US ones 600 per kilo.
